COQA Chicago 2024

Tentative Full Conference Program (pdf)

 

We have space to accommodate everyone who wishes to join the tour! Please register and select that you are interested and we will invoice you directly for $75 

Venue
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Our Venue will be the Marriott Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile!

If you can, please use the COQA block so that we hit our targets with the hotel. The rate is $269.

The deadline to book in the COQA block was June 7th.



COQA Overflow Room Block
                                                                                                               

The deadline to book in the COQA overflow block was June 7th.

Thank you for your understanding and please contact us if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to accommodate.


Program Information
                                                                                                               

Wednesday, June 26, 2024
8:00am - 1:30pm: COQA Chicago Area Tour

We will Visit:

1) Enbridge Manhattan IL Terminal
2) CITGO Lemont Refinery

3) Intertek Caleb Brett Laboratory (Lunch Provided!) 

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Light Sweet Crude Subcommittee Meeting
4:00pm - 5:00pm: Fats, Oils, & Grease Subcommittee Meeting (NEW!)

5:00pm: COQA Reception Cocktail Hour presented by CME Group:

Thursday, June 27, 2024
7:30am: Breakfast presented by Crude Oil Quality Association
8:20am - 11:30pm: General Presentations Morning Session
11:30am - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 4:00pm: General Presentations Afternoon Session

4:00pm: End of Conference Happy Hour presented by Apollo Petroleum Solutions


Preliminary Speakers List
                                                                                                               

Gus Vasquez
Americas Editorial Manager, Crude and LPG, Argus Media
Trans-Mountain Expansion (TMX) Developments and Crude Quality Update

Brett Hunter,
Owner, Energy Hunter LLC
WTI Quality and Impacts on the Changing Market

Gene Flipse,
Senior Director, Crude Oil Quality
Assurance, Enterprise Products
ASTM D8252 X-ray Method for Metals in Crude Oil

Mayerly Bedoya,
President, Senior Consultant, Advantage Insight Group,
Crude Oil Equalization and Impact on Quality

Hillary Stevenson
Senior Director, Energy Market Intelligence, IIR Energy
PADD 2 Refinery Operations and US Refining Outlook

Michael Montgomery, 
Marketing Partner, Apollo Petroleum Solutions
Mercaptan and H2S Testing in Crude: Effects on the Supply Chain

Sean Hill
Senior Economist, US Energy Information Administration
EIA’s Latest Short-Term Outlook on Global Oil Market Trends

Kevin Milburn
Senior Consultant, Prism Services Manager, Baker & O’Brien
Topic: Renewable Feedstocks

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